Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Sir, Today for the first time in the history of world wide web, the english translations of all the 108 known upanishads have been posted in' http://www.shastras.com/108upanishads/ http://celextel.org/108upanishads/ I would be extremely grateful, if you can bring this fact to the notice of the members of our community. With pranams, Ramachander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Good that you brought up this issue. Some say that only the 10 upanishads on which Bhagwan Shankaracharya has commented are authentic. Others may have been later additions. I know that some of the lesser known upanishads are not very agreeable to Hare Krishna and Vaishnavas so maybe that is why they say that. What is the opinion of thexperts on this matter ? regards, OM Namah Sivaya advaitin, "ramya475" <ramya475 wrote: > > Sir, > Today for the first time in the history of world wide web, the > english translations of all the 108 known upanishads have been posted > in' > http://www.shastras.com/108upanishads/ > http://celextel.org/108upanishads/ > I would be extremely grateful, if you can bring this fact to the > notice of the members of our community. > With pranams, > Ramachander > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Namaste One way to ascertain the authencticity of the Upanishads is to trace its source within the fold of the vedas. All the Upanishads that Shankara commented are found either in the Brahmanas or the Samhita portions of the Veda. Most of the later day upanishads do not find a place in both the Brahmanas and the Samhita of the four vedas. On 8/21/06, mahadevadvaita <mahadevadvaita > wrote: > Good that you brought up this issue. Some say that only the 10 > upanishads on which Bhagwan Shankaracharya has commented are > authentic. Others may have been later additions. I know that some of > the lesser known upanishads are not very agreeable to Hare Krishna and > Vaishnavas so maybe that is why they say that. What is the opinion of > thexperts on this matter ? > regards, > OM Namah Sivaya > > advaitin, "ramya475" <ramya475 wrote: > > > > Sir, > > Today for the first time in the history of world wide web, the > > english translations of all the 108 known upanishads have been > posted > > in' > > http://www.shastras.com/108upanishads/ > > http://celextel.org/108upanishads/ > > I would be extremely grateful, if you can bring this fact to > the > > notice of the members of our community. > > With pranams, > > Ramachander > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 On 21/08/06, K Kathirasan <brahmasatyam > wrote: > > Namaste > > One way to ascertain the authencticity of the Upanishads is to trace > its source within the fold of the vedas. All the Upanishads that > Shankara commented are found either in the Brahmanas or the Samhita > portions of the Veda. Most of the later day upanishads do not find a > place in both the Brahmanas and the Samhita of the four vedas. > Not exactly. Most of the major Upanishad-s are found in the Aranyaka portions of the Veda-s. More importantly, the major Upanishads are associated with specific Vedic shakha-s and therefore have recitation traditions. Now, though Adi Sankara commented on only 11 Upanishads (apart from the big 10 there is also a commentary on the Nrisimhapurvatapini Upanishad), he quotes from several others. So he certainly recognizes more than 11. The Muktikopanishad provides a list of 108 Upanishads and, to my knowledge, the Advaitin tradition regards all of these as authentic. Upanishad Brahmayogin wrote commentaries to all of these in the Advaitin tradition. They may be "later" Upanishads but that does not mean they are unauthentic. Ramesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Namaste Ramesh, The Aranyakas too are part of the Brahmanas. That's the reason why I didn't mention it separately. Hence, the broad division, Brahmanas & Samhitas. The later Upanishads have also promoted sectarianism which is not found in the Upanishads Shankara commented on. On 8/21/06, Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rkmurthy > wrote: > On 21/08/06, K Kathirasan <brahmasatyam > wrote: > > > > Namaste > > > > One way to ascertain the authencticity of the Upanishads is to trace > > its source within the fold of the vedas. All the Upanishads that > > Shankara commented are found either in the Brahmanas or the Samhita > > portions of the Veda. Most of the later day upanishads do not find a > > place in both the Brahmanas and the Samhita of the four vedas. > > > > Not exactly. Most of the major Upanishad-s are found in the Aranyaka > portions of the Veda-s. More importantly, the major Upanishads are > associated with specific Vedic shakha-s and therefore have recitation > traditions. > > Now, though Adi Sankara commented on only 11 Upanishads (apart from > the big 10 there is also a commentary on the Nrisimhapurvatapini > Upanishad), he quotes from several others. So he certainly recognizes > more than 11. > > The Muktikopanishad provides a list of 108 Upanishads and, to my > knowledge, the Advaitin tradition regards all of these as authentic. > Upanishad Brahmayogin wrote commentaries to all of these in the > Advaitin tradition. > > They may be "later" Upanishads but that does not mean they are unauthentic. > > Ramesh > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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